Some of those on the far left seem to think that just because a "liberal" was elected then things would automatically go their way. Childre!! The don't seem to understand the give and take of politics in the real world. Many of these celeb types are not smart enough to be hired as a personal arse wiper anyway. Their opinions are worth less than those of the local high school student working part time as a stock clerk.

He is working on shoring up his left with some of his recent attacks on Ryan, etc. That would be OK if it wasn't for the fact that the country is in dire trouble. He is all tactics and he isn't very good at that.

The irony is that the City by the Bay is the one that designated him a Lightworker (I still don't know what that is supposed to mean).

Well, maybe he is. Slow but sure, he's making everybody hate him.

PS Ut, you forgot GE profits jumped 77% this quarter while not paying any taxes.

Also, having taken over GM in defiance of the Constitution and the will of the people and run it his way, Little Zero is going to divest his ownership, throwing under the bus those 3 million jobs the Lefties told us only Conservatives would allow go down the drain, with a considerable loss to the taxpayer.

Liberals are like children screaming at the adult for their version of "Pizza! Ice cream! Money for the Mall"....Where Obama and government replaces parents in dishing out the begged for free goodies.

(Not that far Right people are immune from their own childlike pleas - Please cult Goddesses Palin and Bachmann - we want more wars to help people, less taxes, don't touch my military, social security, or medicare though!!)

I do notice the absolute absence of any blubbering by the SF Lefties about "dead hero soldiers" now that Obama has 3 wars going. Or any talk about GITMO or "precious dead murdered Talibani babies butchered extrajudicially by the tyrant President launching missiles at them". Which suggests the whole while they were on their precious little terrorist rights lovefest and demanding to pose next to coffins arriving at Dover and putting up their cute little fake cemeteries for the "Dead Heroes" - the Left and the Progressive Jewish dominated media never cared about that. Or the "victims" they championed.

(Not that far Right people are immune from their own childlike pleas - Please cult Goddesses Palin and Bachmann - we want more wars to help people, less taxes, don't touch my military, social security, or medicare though!!)

You've been taking the Kos trolls way too seriously. A lot of conservatives want out of A-stan and think Libya was a really bad idea, and plenty who take Rand Paul's ideas on entitlements to heart.

PS Ut, you forgot GE profits jumped 77% this quarter while not paying any taxes.

That is because GE use a carryforward; they had lost money in a previous year, and they used the credit this tax year. It is a tax deduction available to all businesses. There is nothing nefarious about it.

Freeman, having lived in Seattle for many years, I assure you the actors don't look at Obama as a failure, but simply the first step toward social justice, speaking truth to power, equality etc. He's their best shot, but the converted don't even realize this, so they punish him. It's really that bad.

Much like the notorious Robert Cook,many would dismantle most everything that functions in our society if they had their way, punish their enemies, become the authoritarians many of them are inside... before they'd even stop to think what they're doing.

It will be fun to watch Obama court them to get re-elected, and I hope it happens a visibly as possible, so many undecideds will see what their vote has really gotten them.

In Reno, he announced that the Justice Department will investigate fraud and manipulation in the oil and gas markets.

The bunch of highly credentialed morons around the President, and the President himself, actually believe this crap. It is not a cynical move; they actually believe that high gas prices are the result of a conspiracy by refiners or retailers, and not the result of market forces and OPEC opportunism.

You mean you can "buy" gay marriage with chump change? Or change to a chump?

The health care "thing-y" once it was opened, destroyed Nancy Pelosi.

Obviously, though Nancy Pelosi and Kloppenhoppen now represent ALL democrapic female candidates.

ONE: Not in touch with reality.

TWO: Bogus botox. Erases their poker tells, or so they think.

Given that in 1776 when we first formed a new government, the idea took hold that candidates should mud-wrestle, or compete for their posts.

Sure. You can score this game! It is always in play. Back around 1898, by a fluke, the first Progressive ended up in the White House. His name was Theodore Roosevelt. Then, Taft came in. And, coming back from a safari, where he was shooting elephants, Teddy Roosevelt came back to the States, and tried to wrest the presidential nomination from the incumbent Taft.

Here's how the whole 20th Century went down: Winner. Democraps. Losers: Republicans. Progressives? Big winners! Even though one of the republican losers, HARDING, selected President Taft (who was now an ex-president), to sit in one of the nine supreme court seats.

FDR wins. HATES the conservative supreme court. And, tries a "court packing" manuever around this, by trying to increase the seating at the supreme-O's small table. (This failed.)

But FDR had 4 terms. And, enough time to switch ALL those seated robed wonders to the new "ethic."

The first four are rather famous. Each one was liberal. But none of them shared a map, together. Arriving at various liberal destinations ... and, basically, changing the laws as we know them. To this day.

The good news is that the democraps have run out of talent.

The bad news? Well, no one wants a republican who is also a politician. We've seen this give rise to strangers.

So, it wasn't only the wild west that got changed when strangers strode into town.

The thing is... OPEC is a Cartel. They actually engage on an open conspiracy to increase oil prices, and succeed to a large extent. They announce cutbacks and quotas. They crow when oil prices go up....

PS Ut, you forgot GE profits jumped 77% this quarter while not paying any taxes.

That is because GE use a carryforward; they had lost money in a previous year, and they used the credit this tax year. It is a tax deduction available to all businesses. There is nothing nefarious about it.

Keep your sighs to yourself, pal.

Not all of us are financial mavens. This was, nonetheless a big bone of contention for many (WSJ, The Wrap), the sale of NBC and Universal being the featured issue.

If Obama is going to investigate speculation and manipulation in the oil market (probably in gold too) he should ask his friend Bill Clinton.

I suspect, based on circumstantial evidence since it is a rather opaque Swiss company, that the oil prices are being raised by the former Marc Rich and Company. Now called Glencore.

You may remember Marc Rich. He was the felon that Clinton pardoned the day before he left office.

Glencore has a huge IPO coming out in the next few weeks. One of the largest in history. Their business is oil and commodities. The higher the price, the more Rich et al (Including Willie?) will rake in.

I predict significantly lower oil prices by 30-60 days after the IPO pops.

"There is no need to repair to conspiracy to answer the question about why gasoline prices are going up. The loss of Libyan crude--about 2% of global supply--has reduced the amount of oil available in the market and gasoline prices track global crude oil prices.

Prices must necessarily rise to reduce global oil consumption because we can't consume what isn't there. How much do prices need to rise to reduce oil consumption by 2%? It takes a big increase in gasoline prices to get us to drive even a little less. Economists estimate that prices must rise anywhere from 10 to 20 times the percentage reduction in quantity to reduce demand enough to equal the lower supply. Thus for a 2% supply reduction, prices must rise between 20% and 40%. Average gasoline prices have risen 20% since early February, on the low end of what economists predict.

So put away the torches and pitchforks."

Obama calls for Commissions to investigate the rising debt, rising gas prices or for that matter any looming problem/disaster because he has no idea or will to actually solve any problem.

Wait, I thought Obama viewed high gas prices as good thing. Supposed to bring on a glorious future where we all bike to work and take solar powered high speed trains when we want to go out of town. Something like that.

A real leader would be preparing everyone for shared sacrifice. What is he doing? He's preparing the battlefield space for "us" versus "them." He's a damned fool. And we're damned fools for having elected him.

PS Ut, you forgot GE profits jumped 77% this quarter while not paying any taxes.

That is because GE use a carryforward; they had lost money in a previous year, and they used the credit this tax year. It is a tax deduction available to all businesses. There is nothing nefarious about it.

4/23/11 10:40 AM

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"AllenS said...It's beyond my comprehension why anyone would still support this man. And that includes the right and left side of politics."

=============It depends.If you are in the half of the US population that no longer pays income taxes but want free goodies from those who do, he is a rational choice.If you are in the tens of millions in government employee unions local, state, Federal - Obama is definitely for you.

The rest of the populace is going to do a wait and see on who the Republicans come up with as an alternative.

It's not like the country's huge fiscal problems started with Obama. You can take many back to not just the failed Presidency of Dubya and his fiscal recklessness - but to Reagans supply side voodoo economics, Clinton's free trade globalism, and LBJ's Great Society entitlements.

It's not like Obama got us in interminable wars that were supposed to be brief and not cost us much. That was Dubya and the Neocons. Obama added a stupid war, but McCain was eager for war with Iran, war with US troops helping "noble Georgians" fighting Russians, and loves Obama's new Libyan war.

If the Republican Base comes up with a Palin or Bachmann - the idependents shift Democrat in droves. Just like they did facing the guaranteed dismal, war-hungry McCain candidacy.

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I still do not understand why as a Nepalese who is a US citizen, working for a defense contractor I have to show my birth certificate before taking every new assignment. If I run for office - any office - then I can get elected. Then I show nothing. Is this right?

It is not a cynical move; they actually believe that high gas prices are the result of a conspiracy by refiners or retailers, and not the result of market forces and OPEC opportunism.

Why on earth would there be gas stations in Florida near the airports with prices above $5.00 a gallon, when here in the sticks and far away from easy delivery we are at $4.00? They were talking about it on the news today.

The gouging is a drop in the bucket, but that does not mean we should let it slide.

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